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...broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds was a year away, Citizen Kane four years. But already Welles was keeping multiple mistresses and holding an entire cast hostage to his whims. "The principal occupation of the Mercury Theater is waiting for Orson," explains the young John Houseman (Eddie Marsan). (See pictures of Zac Efron's career in film...
...orbit, Richard learns how to light a match in the coolest possible way, how to impress a girl and, like Icarus, he discovers what happens when you get too close to a star. He rubs elbows with plenty of real people who were fast becoming Welles' loyalists, like Houseman, Joseph Cotton (James Tupper), George Coulouris (Ben Chaplin) and radio star Les Tremayne (Michael Brandon) as well as one fictional dream girl, Sonja (Claire Danes), a Vassar grad who functions as the production's girl Friday and occasionally, as Welles requires it, geisha to the resident genius. (Watch an interview with...
When producer John Houseman suggested The War of the Worlds as the Mercury Theater's Halloween eve broadcast, director and star Orson Welles laughed it off as silly and dull. Eventually, the idea surfaced to update the 1898 H.G. Wells story and split it into two. The first part would take the form of a series of musical pieces broken up by increasingly urgent news bulletins. No radio play before had toyed with the form like this, and the bulletins - at this point old hat to Americans familiar with the dire updates coming out of Europe - gave the story...
...total of 40 minutes, but Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan was hesitant to remove his point guard. At one point in the second half, Sullivan lifted Housman and deferred point guard duties to freshman Jeremy Lin. Lin was called for a five-second violation, after which Sullivan immediately substituted Houseman back into the game. “I’m just so impressed with Drew’s line tonight,” Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. “He’s played a lot of minutes this week, he’s done...
...success in popular media went through mid-high culture, not low. In his early 20s, Welles wouldn?t have considered for one moment seeming less mature or intelligent than he was. He didn?t play to the groundlings; he figured they would climb up to meet him. He and Houseman would fool them into think-ing enlightenment was entertainment. This tendency to edify enchantingly was clearest in the author sketches with which Welles often introduced the evening?s story. Note the confident scholarship - the mixture of history and an-ecdote, the oral eyebrow raised at "establishments," the almost sexual acceleration...